List of works for piano left-hand and orchestra

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Paul Wittgenstein at the piano

This is a list of concertos and concertante works for piano left-hand and orchestra.

The best known left-hand concerto is the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D by Maurice Ravel, which was written for Paul Wittgenstein between 1929 and 1930. Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in World War I, commissioned a number of such works around that time, as did Otakar Hollmann. More recently, Gary Graffman has commissioned a number of left-hand concertos.

List

Composer	Work	Year
Template:Sortname	Left, alone	2015
Template:Sortname	First Concerto for piano left hand and small orchestra, Op. 145	2003
Template:Sortname	Second Concerto for piano left hand and orchestra, Op. 185	2007
Template:Sortname	Piano Concerto No. 2 for left hand (written for Hollmann)	1952
Template:Sortname	Concertante for Piano (Left Hand) and Orchestra	1948
Template:Sortname	Gaea for Two Pianos Left Hand and Orchestra (commissioned by Graffman for him to play with Leon Fleisher)	1996
Template:Sortname	Piano Concerto No. 2 for the Left Hand, Op. 28 (commissioned by Wittgenstein)	1924
Template:Sortname	Piano Concerto in A minor (written for Wittgenstein)	1927
Template:Sortname	Diversions for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra (commissioned by Wittgenstein)	1940
Template:Sortname	Concerto for piano (left hand) and orchestra (commissioned by Leon Fleisher)	1991
Template:Sortname	Piano Concerto No. 3 Zodiac Variations	2002
Template:Sortname	Piano Concerto for the left hand (commissioned by Wittgenstein)	1947
Template:Sortname	Legend for piano left hand and orchestra (commissioned by Wittgenstein)	1949
Template:Sortname	Piano Concerto for the Left Hand	1993
Template:Sortname	Second movement of the Piano concerto no. 2 (Scherzo per la mano sinistra)	1972
Template:Sortname	Seven Last Words: Concerto for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra (commissioned by Graffman)	2002
Template:Sortname	Concerto No. 1 for Left Hand and orchestra	1999
Template:Sortname	Klaviermusik mit Orchester, Op. 29 (commissioned by Wittgenstein)	1923
Template:Sortname	Piano Concerto No. 3	2013
Template:Sortname	INRI, Concerto for piano left hand alone and orchestra	2006
Template:Sortname	Capriccio for piano left hand and chamber ensemble (suggested by Otakar Hollmann but not written for him specifically)	1926
Template:Sortname	Piano Concerto in C-sharp for the left hand, Op. 17 (commissioned by Wittgenstein)	1923
Template:Sortname	Concert piece in the form of variations for piano left-hand and orchestra (composed for Wittgenstein)	1916
Template:Sortname	Concert Piece in F minor (commissioned by Wittgenstein, who premiered it in 1936)	1917
Template:Sortname	Concert Piece in B-flat minor (E flat major?)	1923
Template:Sortname	Piano Concerto No. 2 (in one movement)	1944–48
Ben Lunn	History Needs... concerto for left-hand piano and strings (written for Nicholas McCarthy)	2023
Template:Sortname	Concertino (later renamed Divertimento) for piano left hand and chamber orchestra, H. 173 (commissioned by Hollmann)	1926
Template:Sortname	Concerto for piano left hand and chamber orchestra, Op. 129	2004
Template:Sortname	Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, Op. 71	1971
Template:Sortname	Piano Concerto for the left hand (Concierto de piano para la mano izquierda, written for Gary Graffman, 2001 and premiered by him in 2002)	2001
Template:Sortname	Piano Concerto No. 4 for the left hand, Op. 53 (commissioned by Wittgenstein but never played by him; premiered in 1956 by Siegfried Rapp)	1931
Template:Sortname	Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D (commissioned by Wittgenstein)	1929–30
Template:Sortname	Piano Concerto No. 4 for the Left Hand (commissioned by Gary Graffman)	1993
Template:Sortname	Concertante Variations on a Theme of Beethoven (commissioned by Wittgenstein)	1923
Template:Sortname	Piano Concerto No. 2, for the Left Hand (commissioned by Wittgenstein)	1934
Template:Sortname	Concerto for 3 Hands (written for Lorin Hollander and Leon Fleisher)	1990
Template:Sortname	Paraphrase for piano and orchestra (written for Wittgenstein)	1929
Template:Sortname	Concerto for piano left hand and orchestra	1963
Template:Sortname	Concerto Niccolò for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra	2003
Template:Sortname	Concerto for piano left hand with string orchestra	1989
Template:Sortname	Parergon zur "Sinfonia Domestica" for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 73 (commissioned by Wittgenstein)	1927
Template:Sortname	Panathenäenzug: Sinfonische Etüden in Form einer Passacaglia for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 74 (commissioned by Wittgenstein)	1925
Template:Sortname	Concert Piece for Piano and Orchestra	1943
Template:Sortname	Concertino for piano (left hand) and orchestra, Op. 65	1954
Template:Sortname	Concerto for the left hand	1924
Template:Sortname	Concerto for Piano Left Hand and Chamber Orchestra "Cepheus Note", Op. 102	2007
Template:Sortname	Piano Concerto in E-flat for the left hand (written for himself to play)	1895
Template:Sortname	Piano Concerto No. 5 for the Left Hand, Op. 50	1961

Works for the right hand only

Works for piano right-hand only also exist, but there are far fewer of them than for left-hand only.

Concertante works involving piano right-hand include:

• Henri Cliquet-Pleyel (1894–1963) – Concerto for Piano Right Hand and Orchestra
• Arthur Bliss – Concerto for Two Pianos (3 Hands) and Orchestra, Op. 17 (1968; originally for tenor, piano, strings and percussion; then arranged for 2 pianos and orchestra for Phyllis Sellick and Cyril Smith; then arranged by Bliss and Clifford Phillips for 2 pianos 3 hands and orchestra)
• Malcolm Arnold – Concerto for Two Pianos Three Hands and Orchestra (also known as Concerto for Phyllis and Cyril), 1969. One pianist plays with both hands, the other with the right hand only.
• Gordon Jacob – Concerto for Three Hands on One Piano, 1969 (written for Sellick and Smith).

External links

• Hans Brofeldt, "Piano Music for the Left Hand Alone"